Just acquired a 170 Horizon. Assembly required.

[chevymaher]

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Seems the Admiral ordered curtains and was up at the crack of dawn with the honey doo list.

She said you got boat seats. Well this is my boat.

And I been doing interior decorating every since. But we got to keep the Admiral happy don't we guys?


Then I was off my game so I didn't start a new part of the interior. Just messed with my rhythm.

So I tore things open and saw how key things were made on the rest of the interior. Saw the devastation and destruction in the wood that was covered.

Made measurements of key components I needed wood for. And don't let the one page I showed fool ya. I got pages of cliff notes.

Made a list of what we got. Vinyl wood etc.

Now I am up in the admirals world in my chair. Now see how I can make all this fit efficiently on fresh sheets of wood and the scraps I got left. Limiting the waste to a minimum. Same with the vinyl. Then see how much of each I need. Make the list so I can go get it as soon as the furd truck is available for me to use.

So nothing new to show just a bunch of that thinking stuff. And wow that hurts my head.

 

[chevymaher]

Well the carport going to be tested tonight. Weather is predicted to be. 70 MPH winds and tornadoes. Yea. If it handles this I think we good for the duration.

Tell the truth I am more worried bout the usual tree branches getting ripped off and tossed around. Living in tornado alley is such a joy sometimes. The cook tent even survived this stuff. The house block most of it.

But it will get the leaves out of the yard there is a bright side.

I am taking off not doing squat today. Just relaxing and hanging out with the family.

Tonight we be sitting in the van watching the news on TV waiting out the storm.

 

[zool]

But it will get the leaves out of the yard there is a bright side.

Haha, thats how I do my fall yard work too!

Been following ur thread for a while now Chevy, youre doing a great job.....oh and thinking and staring is the basis for the best results!...actually, an argument can be made or drinking, thinking, and staring!

 

[chevymaher]

Haha, thats how I do my fall yard work too!

Been following ur thread for a while now Chevy, youre doing a great job.....oh and thinking and staring is the basis for the best results!...actually, an argument can be made or drinking, thinking, and staring!

Thank you.

Yea I was getting to stressed and pushing to hard. Wanting to much done to quickly. I haven't taken a day off in months. Getting up at well you see when I post in the mornings.

I just slept in some. relaxing a little. Already getting the urge to hit it. I mentioned the saying my brother uses. This is where it comes from. I am a hyper diaper and run myself into the ground sometimes. Like he says just don't panic it will get done.

I was out there before looking around. I was actually tempted to open the bow and sit in it and have a soda.

My neighbor got a sonic mole chaser. Well it must work it chased it to my yard. I put in the repellent then went and ordered a trap for them. The ol 6 inch spike treatment for them. Played with my son out in the back a while. Just kickin it.

The line is still forming for rides. My Niece and I were on the phone last night. My brother in law her dad passed a while back. He always had several boats at once. So she was raised on a boat. She was Jonesing for a fix. She wants me to make her husband see what a great thing boats are so they can get one. I told her don't worry you in the boat once it is done.

 

[chevymaher]

Well it was ridiculous windy last night. Rained so hard there was 6 inches of water anywhere there was flat road. Underpasses were flooded a few feet and closed. Literally creeks running down the roads. Today the local streams and rivers will crest and flood.

But here on the ranch. (saying i don't have no property) we got off easy. Few small branches down. Carport didn't budge. Basement flooded a little water ran in the back door. No biggie it does that when it rains silly hard.

I am rested and ready to go back at it. Biggie I got to deal with is finding a sheet of 1/2 inch plywood longer than 8 foot for the sides. Of course they are 6 inches longer than 8 foot.

Of course nobody has it. They list it online and sell it. But they say it can't be sent to anywhere local here. Nice. I gonna go down in a bit to the place that promised we can get anything. And smooze them.

I am taking my papers to the man cave and do math this morning. Make a material list and see what I need. I thinking 3 sheets as a rough estimate. 2 8 foot to be cut up for lots of seat parts. and the 9 foot i got to track down for the sides.

Once all this is accomplished. Burn up the rest of the vinyl I got making parts. Then I can get a closer tally on that for the finishing amount.

 

[chevymaher]

Just went out and checked the barge. wind knocked the bow prop down it had a puddle of water in the bow. I dried it. Climbed in and checked the trouble spots. Dry as a bone. Carport looks like nothing happened. So it is all good on to other things like cleaning the water out under the chevelle.

 

[chevymaher]

Alrighty then. Took all that time to draw it on paper and fit the pieces on sheets of plywood. Doing the math bla bla bla I called the lumber place and they are going to order a 4x10 sheet of plywood i can use for the sides. I headed down to pick up the 2 4x8 sheets and I will have to go back for the bigger one. They said it would be in within a week.

This will cover seats stands and all interior wood.

 

[chevymaher]

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Got the wood. They wanted 100 bucks for the plywood. I will just use dowels and a backer on a 8 foot for the sides. It ain't all that.

Started the main seats. Going to do something easy for a change. Make the bases first.

My buddy came over the storm ripped his pool cover off so I went over and helped him straighten that mess out for a couple hours.

 

[chevymaher]

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Today I had a special treat. Jammed a 1/4 splinter under my finger nail.

I can see now if you get a boat make sure your garbage bill is paid up. 90% of it at least is going to get thrown away.

Today I got the seat bases cut out. Glued and screwed together. Let them dry while I mess with this seat bottom.

I am carefully dissecting it seeing how they got it put together. So I know how to do it once I get this mess cut and sewn together. These pieces are a little complicated.

 

[Bayou Dave]

Those kind of "treats" I don't want! lol

 

[chevymaher]

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Well I can tell this is gonna take a while.

I got the seat apart seat bottom cut glue screwed and tattooed.

Then I took the razor and started separating the pieces.

I realized it was to much for my tiny brain to comprehend all at once. So I did just the end cap.

Cut the pieces made the piping and assembled it.

Test fit it on the complete seat to see if I had lost my mind or was in the ballpark.

Better not get in any kind of rush on these or things could go wrong fast.

Tomorrow I got to shape the seat bottom edges. I will do the stands at the same time. Then sand them.

Then start on the other cap.

Pic 1 Rotted seat base. Pic 2 disassembled without destroying what I needed to put it back together. Pic 3 New seat base about to be glued and screwed. Pic 4 test fit. Enough for the day got to get ready for my sons religion classes. Do what I am supposed to the rest of the night. Stop slacking in the garage.

 

[chevymaher]

Still pluggin away. I got the other cap done today. Spend hours with a razor separating the foam form the vinyl. Buddy came over his weed whacker dies and that was it for the seats for the day. These are looking like a week a piece for the padded seat parts.

 

[chevymaher]

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Talked to my brother last night. I finally got him to check for rot on a serious level in the baja he bought. He sent me pictures of it. He took the tank cover out. Pulling up the carpet in the cuddy cabin. His has 4 inch access holes in the main deck you can get to the other side of the stringers and it doesn't seem to have foam which is odd.

This boat was stored in a warehouse in the winter with a forklift and shrink wrapped most of its life. I must admit it looks good and it sure seems like he got lucky. The glass is crystal clear and the wood looks like it is just sitting on the hull. He is still taking things apart for access. But he is going to drill it all this week end.

He also worked in textiles years ago sewing like I did. He bought a machine and we were talking shop on that a while. He has to find a half crows foot for his machine. Where to get heavy thread and things like that. He only has a little bit of single piping in his so it will be seriously easier to do. Most of his is material to material joints and no piping.

He has been sanding and buffing the hull and is going to replace the striping on it. Has some Gel Coat repairs to do. Seems they were bouncing the boat off of stuff parking at the dock.

Our boats are opposites. Mine is the luxury interior model with all the options and gas mileage. His is the stripped race model that heed a gas freighter to follow him. 454 supercharged. Modified outdrive with racing gears. I got a little boat porn of his engine today. He has been shining it up. He had it running and it sounds good with its cute little blower surging going on.

Today for me I got the main seat cut and last piping made. I get to sew the main pleats and attach the center hold downs. I don't know what they are called. The pull the center pleats down tight over the center foam. It gives the seat the custom fit to your butt shape. Then I am sentenced to sewing the end caps on by hand with the double piping. That may take a couple days.

I went and bought 4 rattle cans of paint for the wood. Four winns had inside the stands painted black and the seat wood white. I cant see buying good paint and using the compressor and gun on the wood. It looks hammed no matter what you do. As long as it is the right colors is all your going to get there. Wood soaking it up like a sponge. I put a coat on heavy. Let it dry and tack up cloggs the pores in the wood some. Then a final coat that looks better.

It has been frost weather here for a while. So I am not all fired up to go outside in the morning to grind and sand the wood parts yet. I going to try to get that today and paint them once it warms up.

 

[Bayou Dave]

That is one pretty engine!

 

[chevymaher]

Well I got derailed yesterday. I screwed with leaf blowers and got one going for my buddy. Mix and match parts. Magneto died on his.

I looked out the door and the leaves were literally up to the axle on the boat trailer. So that had to change. I used the freshly fixed leaf blower and got them put from under it and away from the fence line and mulched them all up. After this dip and temps I got to cut and pull up the flowers the canis once they brown their leaves up and store energy in the tubers. Cut down the texas grass to ground level for next years growth. Snow is on the way here to they predicting it for thanksgiving.

It was cold yesterday ice everywhere. And even colder today. It is 24 degrees. I sanded the seat base and the 2 seat stands. Painted the inside of the seat stands black like they were and the seat base white like the one I took apart.

Then it dawned on me the bow rider section the white was where someone in the boats past had repaired it. I looked and sure enough the rest of them were black. So I will repaint that today. As Homer says DOH!

Once I get woke up and some coffee in me i will start sewing the pleat on the seat bottom I am doing now. I need to go pick up more black paint already. That wood soaks it up like a sponge.

The admiral has been asking about the convertible top alot lately she likes it so I guess that is on the short list of things to redo after I finish the interior. I need to find heavy plastic zippers and the thick plastic they use for the windows.

I have been looking into a electric 12V heater to install in it to. It gets cool on the river here at night. I already converted a 100 amp alternator with internal regulator to a v belt from a serpentine set up for it. It is a 3 month old A/C delco unit came off a parts car. So if i ever need a replacement it is a 90 astro LOL. I fits physically and lines up correctly when bolted on. I haven't messed with the wiring yet. The be easier once it is in the boat and I see what needs done. I got a tub full of wiring harnesses from the 60's cars I mess with I can get the correct gauge wires from.

So I was doing some boat stuff just mechanical. I was already greasy and couldn't touch the white upholstery why not right?

 

[chevymaher]

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Seat base painted. Got the pleats done. Got the foam on back now.

Now i am not enjoying through 7 layers of material keeping them lined up while I do it. Got half of the double piping done on one side.

I am sure I will be doing the pipng putting the ends on all day tomorrow to.

 

[Woodonglass]

What machine are you using for your upholstery work?

 

[chevymaher]

I use the JC penny for pleats. And I am using a white for the pipeing. And the double pipeing I am hand sewing. I just can't get the double pipeing to line up otherwise.

 

[Woodonglass]

You need a double piping foot!!!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Double-Wel...ger-Slant-Shank-Sewing-machines-/321163545310

 

[chevymaher]

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You need a double piping foot!!!

Thank you I just bought it. It looks like it fits the JC Penny machine. And by the time it gets here I will be just getting to the seat back. That will be incredibly handy for the single piping.

Maybe I am dense but I don't see it helping on my double piping. I googled it and they are doing single color double piping. Sewing that piece made to a single piece of material. But once it is here I may figure it out.

Here is a crude sketch of what I got going on. This is the way it was originally. On the left is basically the way it is finished. On the left is how it would have to be sewing it to get it like that. That foot is at a right angle to the piping then.

I will keep searching for a way to do it and use it tho.

Untill then back to doing it the hard way LOL. I am about to head down and watch sci fi movies and sew my little heart out. Piping is alot like demolition of the boat. Just got to tell yourself keep going it will be over eventually.